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Frankie Sinatra set the bar with his love song to the Big Apple, which was interestingly first recorded by Liza Minnelli.

But there have been many other songs about New York, New York, the most recent notable effort being Jay Z and Alicia Keyes.

If you were to make a compilation, what song about New York would you include?

Olympia, WA by Rancid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O0fllFEATs

New York City - The Cult w. Iggy Pop
Leaving New York - REM
Fairytale of New York - Pogues

New York State of Mind - Billy Joel

I'd be tempted to include Dirty Boulevard also, by Lou Reed

I heard Big Yellow Taxi is about NY. i like that song.

New York Groove - Ace Frehley (KISS)
New York Minute - Don Henley
New York City - John Lennon
New York - Richard Ashcroft
New York - Sex Pistols
Englishman in New York - Sting
New York - U2
New York City - The Cult

.....just some on the New York tracks on my IPod

nyc - Interpol
New York City Boy - Pet Shop Boys

...but I forgot the absolute best NY song ever...New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down by LCD Soundsystem

New York- Eskimo Joe

South Bronx - Boogie Down Productions
Crooklyn - The Crooklyn Dodgers
Represent - Nas
The Bridge - MC Shan
The Bridge is Over - Boogie Down Productions
Streets of New York - Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo
Brooklyn's Finest - Jay Z & Biggie Smalls
Brooklyn Zoo - Ol' Dirty Bastard
NYC Everything - RZA & Method Man
CREAM -Wu Tang Clan
Straight Talk from NY - DJ Honda with Grand Puba, Sadat X and Wakeem
No Sleep Til Brooklyn - Beastie Boys
Come Clean - Jeru the Damaja
Shook Ones Pt. II - Mobb Deep

Arthur's Song - Christopher Cross (no, not really)

NYC Cops - The Strokes

The National - Anyone's Ghost

Say you stay at home alone with the flu
Find out from friends that wasn't true
Go out at night with your headphones on, again
And walk through the Manhattan valleys of, the dead

Well Manhattan's in New York innit?

AND.....THE WINNER IS!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIeTgKZvadk



ZZ.....shhhhhhh!!!.....I have this on vinyl!!!!!

One of the greatest opening scenes in cinema history!!!

New York
London
Paris
Munich
everybody talk about...
Pop Muzik!

Only Living Boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel's finest moment IMO

Ryan Adams?

From memory, clip recorded just before "September 11"..

Dissident wrote:Ryan Adams?

From memory, clip recorded just before "September 11"..

Ryan Adams version of 'Wonderwall' was the song me and wife had our first dance to at our wedding.

New York City Song, Eddie and the Cruisers soundtrack

Jamaican in New York by SHINEHEAD

Magpiespower wrote:South Bronx - Boogie Down Productions
Crooklyn - The Crooklyn Dodgers
Represent - Nas
The Bridge - MC Shan
The Bridge is Over - Boogie Down Productions
Streets of New York - Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo
Brooklyn's Finest - Jay Z & Biggie Smalls
Brooklyn Zoo - Ol' Dirty Bastard
NYC Everything - RZA & Method Man
CREAM -Wu Tang Clan
Straight Talk from NY - DJ Honda with Grand Puba, Sadat X and Wakeem
No Sleep Til Brooklyn - Beastie Boys
Come Clean - Jeru the Damaja
Shook Ones Pt. II - Mobb Deep

Most of these songs are rippers
Cant go past some Nas, Wu Tang Clan and there members for some NY love.